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Show "Moonliciht on a Shovel " In hiB lecture at San Francisco, Mr. Beeaher began with a glowing tribute to Clifornia. He had, he said, "been astounded at the great west, its peo pie and its productions; but when his train plunged into the sunlit glory of the Sacramento yalley, and thundered thun-dered through the fairest fields of tbo continent towards the infant colloesus of cities sitting serene by the shore of earth's mightiest ocean, he felt then, indeed, that California wan God'a last work and his beet I" "'la fly 1" said a still, Bmall voice in the gallery, and the effect of tho eloquent elo-quent exordium was marred. |